Antimistake hat-protector



l. E. YOUNG.

ANTIMISTAKE HAT Pnosco.

APPLICATION FILED ]AN.16|1919. 1,357,211 Patented Got. 26, 1920.

da@ WM\ UNITED STATES PATENT orifice.

JAMES EDWARD YOUNG", OE LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR-OF ONE-THIRD T0 WILLIAM A. GASTON AND ONE-THIRD TO Vi/'ILLIAM GELES, CALIFORNIA.

l. STONE, BOTH OF LOS AN- ANTIMISTAKE HAT-PROTECTOR.

Application filed January 16, 1919.

T 0 all whom t may concern l Be it known that II, JAMES EDWARD YOUNG, a citizen of the United States, residing at 122 l/Vest 91st street, in the city of Los Angeles, county of Los Angeles, and

State of Oalifornia, have invented a new.

and useful Antimistake Hat-Protector, of which the following is a specification.

An object of this invention is to make provision whereby when a stranger puts on a hat that is provided with this protector and which does not belong to him he will be warned that he has made a mistake, and can thereupon return the hat to the rack or other place where he got it and select his own hat.

The invention is adapted to be construct ed in various forms and it is believed that illustration of two of such forms will be sufficient.

The invention is broadly new, basic and pioneer in that it consists in a device applicable on the inside of a hat and adapted to be adjusted to prick the head of the wearer and can also be adjusted to nonpricking position.

Other objects of the invention are to provide cheap, simple7 easily made and easily applied means for attaining the object first above stated.

A further object is to make provision whereby the hat protector may be adjusted into position for wearing and into position to prevent comfortable wearing and vice versa.

Further objects, advantages and features of invention may appear trom the accompanying drawings, the subjoined detail description and the appended claims.

The accompanying drawings, illustrate the invention in two of the forms I at present deem most desirable.

.Figure 1 is an inside view on an enlarged scalelof a device constructed for attachment to a hat for the purpose of protecting the same as above stated; and adjusted to wearing position.

F ig. 2, is a sectional elevation on line 022 Fig. 1, looking in the direction of the arrow.

F ig. 3 is a View on about the approved scale showing the attachment in head prick ing position and connected to a hat, a fragment of which is shown.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oot. 26, 1920.

serial No. 271,532.V

F ig. 4 is a section on line $4 F ig. 3, on the same scale as Figs. 1 and 2.

Fig. 5 is a view of a modified form of an attachment; the point being shown eX- tended.

Fig. 6, is a section on line m6 Fig. 5.

The mounting is a plate 1 having a slot 2 and a pivot hole 3 therein; said slot is of a circular form being preferably about 1800 or more and extending concentric to the pivot hole rlhe element 1 is in the forni of a hand extending something like the hand of a clock and having an Yorifice 5 for a pivot 6 for the purpose of pivoting the hand to the mounting. Said hand has abend 7 that extends through the slot, and terminates in a prick point 8, that is so arranged that when the hand is turned into one position, said point will be adapted to prick any object that is brought against it.

The plate 1 is provided with tangs 9 and 9 serving as fastening means for attaching the mounting to the sweat band 10 of the hat a. Said tangs 9 projecting' from that side of the mounting opposite the prick point 8, so that when the plate is applied to the sweat band 10 the person wishing to protect the hat against mistaken removal from the place from where it is left, may adjust the point 8 into position adjacent the hat brim 11.

To adjust the point to wearing position the person has only to move the point 8 of the hand L1, again into upright position where it will be out of engagement with the head of the wearer. If desired any legend or picture may be embossed on the plate for ornament or to disguise the device. As foi' instance the hat a shown in F ig. l, but such is immaterial.

The modification of F 5 and 6 shows the prick point 8 at the end of a spring tongue 12 extending through a hole 13 in the plate 1, and when desired to adjust to wearing position the tongue 12 bearing against the pressure of a spring 14 is raised out of pricking position by means of a linger 15 extending through a slot 16; said linger being an extension of the shoulder 17 on which spring 1d bears, is held in place by a notch 18 at the upper end of slot 16.

1 claim 1. In an anti-mistake hat protector-a slotted plate adapted to be fastened to the inside of a hat; and means pivoted to the plate and provided With a point extending through said slot and adapted to be adjusted into and'out of pricking position to the wearer.

2. An anti-mistake hat protector comprising a mounting adapted to be fastened to the sweat-band of a hat; a pricking-point pivotally connected to the mounting and extending aslant threiroin and adapted to eX- tend to engage the head When in one position and to extend aWay from such engagement When in another position.

3. An anti-mistake hat protector comprising a plate provided with an opening and a point adapted to be adjusted in said opening so that in one position it will prick the head when the hat is placed thereon and in another position Will not prick the head.

4E. A plate provided with means for attachment to the sweat band of a hat and having a slot of 1800 or more; a hand having a prick point bent to extend through the slot; said hand being pivoted to the plate and said slot being arranged so that when the hand is at one end of the slot the prick point Will project toward the 'brim' of the hat, and when the hand is at the other end or" the slot the prick point will project from the brim of the head.

5. In an anti-mistake hat protector#a slotted plate adapted to be fastened to the sweat bandV of a hat; a tongue terminating in a pricking point said point extending through the slot in said plate.;v means for sliding the point of the tongue into and out of pricking position to the wearer and means for retaining the point in non-prick ing position.

6. ln an anti-mistake hat protector-a slotted plate adapted to be fastened to the inside of-a hat; a pricking point extending through the slot in said plate-means for adjusting said point into and out of pricking position to the wearer and means for retaining said point in non-pricking position.

In testimony whereof, l have hereunto set my hand at Los Angeles, California7 this 9th day of January, 1919.

JAMES EDVVARD YOUNG.

Vitness:

JAMES R. ToWNsEND. 

